Places

Date: 1959

From: New Zealand Labour Party: [Fliers, cards and pamphlets of octavo size. 1955-1959]

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-LABOUR-1959-01

Description: A programme for the annual debutante ball of the Papanui Branch of the Labour Party. Page 13 has a message from the Prime Minister Walter Nash, and page 17 has a message from R M MacFarlane, MP for Christchurch Central. The list of debutantes is given on page 19. The ball programme is in the centre spread (pages 40-41), and there are pages of light articles and jokes, and many pages of advertisements by local businesses. The cover design is by John Harvey. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset print, in booklet of 80 pages, each 210 x 137 mm.

Date: 1926-1959

From: Hull-Brown, Ian Norman: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Hull-Brown

Description: Includes a collection of ball programmes: Undated: Eastbourne Carnival Football Queen No 3 dance programme. Perfumed with Muguet. 1926: Public Trust Office. Annual dance. St Francis Hall Wellington. 11 June 1926. Programme. 1928: Government House Wellington. 25 September 1928. Programme. Government House. 12 October 1928. Programme HMS Dunedin. 27 November 1928. [Programme] Annual Charity Ball. Town Hall. 6th (17 July 1928), 8th (11 June 1930), 9th (17 June 1931), 10th (15 June 1932), 11th (7 June 1933), 12th (20 June 1934), 13th (26 June 1935), 17th (21 June 1939), 18th (5 June 1940) 1929: St Patricks College Old Boys Association. 4th and 6th annual ball programmes. 1929 and 1931. Government House Wellington. 13 August 1929. Programme. 1930: Post & Telegraph Department. Town Hall. 31 July 1930. Programme. [Vivienne Riddiford engagement party - identified in pencil on back, and with the initials "V&M" on front]. 21 October 1930. Programme. [Dr Herbert's 21st party for his daughter - identified in pencil on back]. 12 November 1930. Programme. Featherston Golf Club annual ball. 15 July 1930. Programme; and Menu. Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club. 8 May 1930. [Ball programme] [Palmerston North Golf Club?] Palmerston North. 1 August 1930 (shows humorous illustration of golfers on the front of programme) Masterton Golf Ball (identified in pencil on back). Programme 1930. 1931: B (Dr Herbert's daughter's coming out dance). 27 April 1931. Programme. 1932: Lever Brothers (N.Z.) Limited. Founder's Day celebration. Kirkcaldie & Stains' Ballroom. 16 September 1932. Programme. M.S. [and] J.N. [marriage?] 10 March 1932. Programme. J.P. [and] J.W. [marriage?] Dances. 21 April 1932. Programme Plunket Ball. Town Hall. 15 July 1932. 1933: Programme with red musical stave on the front. [Dr Herbert's daughter's arrival from India. 17/1/33. [Dance card]. 1935: B D G and F N G. 19 September 1935. [Marriage?]. Programme. 1936: Queen Margaret College. 22 August 1935. Programme (front half only) Public Works Department annual staff dance 1936 1937-1938: Marsden School. Debutantes' dance. 21.5.1937 and 6.5.1938. Programmes. George R. J. [and] Elizabeth R. [Ball] programme. 7.5.[19]38. 1939: Mayfair Cabaret. Shell Social Club dance. Thursday 29 June [1939] Post & Telegraph Department annual ball. Dance list and supper ticket. (5 different, including one dated 1939) Queen Margaret College. Debutantes' Ball. 18 April 1939. Programme. 1946: A T Young 22/5/46. Programme. General Motors. "Assembly line" of all those who have served General Motors for ten or more years. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George Wellington. 12 December 1946. Programme. 1948: Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. 65th presentation of prizes and annuall. 17 July 1948. Wairarapa Hunt Incorporated. Annual ball. 30 July 1948. Programme. 1949: General Motors. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 15 December 1949. 1950: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 14 December 1950. 1951: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 13 Devember 1951. Programme. General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. [Three badges worn by Norm Hull-Brown at these events] Includes programmes: Wellington Orphans' Club. Annual ladies' night. Masonic Hall, The Terrace. 7 August 1930. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Bright and breezy". Majestic Theatre 23 May 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brighter and breezier". 11 July 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brightest and breeziest". St James Theatre Wellington. 17 October 1935. Programme. Disabled Soldiers Civil Re-Establishment League presents its 1941 monster revue, "Britannia". Opera House, 1-10 May 1941. Programme. 2YA Camp Entertainers come to town with a non-stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 25 March 1944. Proceeds to Wellington Red Cross. 2YA Camp Entertainers return to town with another Non-Stop Variety Show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 November 1944. Programme. Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association. Smoke concert. Town Hall, 8 September 1950. Programme (autograph B C Freyberg) New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Non-Stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 September 1950. For the UN Appeal for Children. One day of your pay will save another child. Compered by Selwyn Toogood. Includes invitations: Nga Tawa Old Girls and Wanganui Old Boys. Ball at Drill Hall, Feilding. 14 June 1937. Invitation. Ohingaiti Citizen's [sic] annual Ball. Friday 12 August 1938. Music by Wellington's foremost dance band, Henry Rudolph's Dance Band. Flier. Wellington College Old Boys' Cricket Club. Annual dance. 9 March 1940. Invitation. Also includes a receipt from the Wellington Performing Musicians Industrial Union of Workers for membership, Mr Hull-Brown, 3 May 1927; and a business card of Jack E Michel, trap-drummer and xylophonist, Fuller's Vaudeville, Ambassador Cabaret. (in "Programmes" folder) Quantity: 30 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) invitations. 20 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (programmes, etc).

Date: 1923

From: Hull-Brown, Ian Norman: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Hull-Brown-1923-01

Description: Folded card, listing inside a programme of 14 dances, with space for a partner's name. There is also an inserted calendar card for 1923, with advertising for Pompeia perfume (L.T. Piver, Paris), whose "Muguet" originally perfumed the card. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on folded card 90 x 52 mm.

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: 1950 - 1965

By: Morrison, Colin Nichol, active 1930-1970s

Reference: Eph-C-DOG-1950s-01/02

Description: One poster shows an exhausted sheepdog handler collapsed beside a pen inwhich his dogs sit, while three sheep stand outside looking in at the dogs. The text reads: "It may be hard to swallow, but our supper won't be, so make it a date, Makotuku Hall, May 15th. The Dog Trial Ball" The other poster shows male and female sheepdogs dressed in evening wear, waltzing together. The text reads: "Yes, sir!. It really is something. The Dog Trial Ball, Makotuku Hall, May 15th. Admission 5/-, 7/6, 10/-". Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil on sheets 380 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Colin Nichol Morrison, Waipukurau, in 2009. Transfers: Donation taken in Acquisitions distributed from there..

Date: 1909

Reference: Eph-A-BALL-1909-02

Description: Card shows an arrangement of text. At top left is a diagonal red and black striped corner. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on card 76 x 114 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2014.

Date: 1908

By: Delittle, Fenwick and Company (York); Greenbank, A, active 1900s

Reference: Eph-A-BALL-1908-01

Description: Postcard shows on the recto an illustration by A Greenbank, of a fashionably dressed young woman. She wears a large hat, an off-the-shoulder dress and black netting gloves, and holds the handle of a parasol in her left hand. The verso contains a written message from Laura, to Alice Walsh of Ngaruawahia, and mentions an upcoming bachelors' ball in Hukanui on the Friday night. Laura signs herself off with a "Haeremai". The card is postmarked at Taupiri on 10 September 1908. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph and ink holograph on postcard, 140 x 90 mm. Provenance: Donated by Auckland City Council's South Auckland Research Centre, in 2014.

Date: 1996 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-LIFESAVING-1996/1999

Description: Includes: 1997: Northern Lifeguard Services announces the Awards Ball on 16 August 1997. Power New Zealand Lifeguards [Ticket application form] 1998: Northern Lifeguard Services announces the Titanic Awards Ball , 26 June 1998. If only we could have been there! Power New Zealand Lifeguards [Ticket application form] Quantity: 2 pamphlets. Physical Description: Booklets and flyers, sizes varying around 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated by Surf Lifesaving New Zealand, in 2012. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2134 and the Photographic Archive..

Date: 19 Aug 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Dawson, Ailsa, active 1998; McMillan, Mary Ferguson, 1908-

Reference: OHInt-0464/15

Description: Mary McMillan was born in Invercargill in 1908 along with her twin brother Andrew. Describes her family and memories of living at Moa Flat where her father managed Howell's Estate. Describes the death of Mr Howell in a buggy accident and purchase of a farm near Waituna. Mentions cobalt deficiency and sheep deaths. Notes her father died from pernicious anaemia caused by the lack of cobalt. Recalls attending school at Waituna, childhood games (rounders and marbles), walking to school, first motor cars she saw, a diphtheria epidemic and attending Technical College in Invercargill. Recalls the house her father built of red pine with a superheater and a wash-house. Describes how her parents died when she was twenty and she and her sister brought up the younger children. Recalls bachelor and spinster balls, dances, card evenings, tennis games and the opening of the hall. Mentions knitting for soldiers in World War II. Talks about washing day and cooking for fifteen threshing mill workers for three meals a day for a week. Describes the dairy factory at Oteramika and the making of Stilton cheese by Mr Saxelby at Woodlands. Mentions a rabbit canning factory and linen flax factory. Notes the use of linen flax during the war. Describes marrying neighbour Alexander McMillan and moving to Waituna. Interviewer(s) - Ailsa Dawson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008618 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2692. Photos of Mary McMillan in 1963 and 1998

Date: 16 Mar 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: McDonald, Avis, active 1998; Horrell, Albert Edwin John, 1917-2001

Reference: OHInt-0428/12

Description: Bert Horrell was born in Gore in 1917. Describes how his grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in the 1880s. Talks about their farm across the Mataura River and the difficulty of crossing it to get to school. Mentions how his father, as a child, had learned how to cross the river with a horse and dray full of school children. Talks about his father buying a farm at Mandeville. Describes going to Mandeville school, conditions, teachers Alan Prentice and Miss Barclay and sitting Proficiency. Recalls that his mother was a member of the Hargest family which settled at Mandeville. Mentions John and Jim Hargest. Notes that there was no money in farming at the time and his parents operated the Mandeville store for a period. Talks about the farm house they built. Mentions that his father was religious. Recalls the vicar Hoani Parata. Talks about his father's religious convictions, Sunday School in the Mandeville Hall, Presbyterian strictness and the no dancing rule. Mentions the importance of the railway and the work of the gangers. Talks about the Mandeville Hotel. Recalls travelling by train in segregated carriages to Gore High School for two years before working on the family farm. Describes milking cows and the separator used to separate the milk from the cream. Mentions the use of lime on paddocks to increase productivity at the end of the Depression and experimenting with grass seeds. Recalls going in to military camp after the Battle of Britain and the entry of the Japanese into the war. Talks about the history of the area written by Herries Beattie. Mentions a Maori raid at Tuturau, George Meredith Bell, gold seekers, the Croydon run, the Wantwood homestead and run, Peter McLeod and the flour mill built by Mr Doull. Describes what happened to the mill. Recalls the music at dances, balls, bachelor balls and wartime farewell functions and traditions such as reserving dances, the last dance, taking your partner home and romance. Describes the alcohol consumed in cars at these events, corrugated gravel roads, curtains on cars because it was cold and the difficulty of crank starting cars. Mentions going to the pictures in Gore. Describes duck shooting with the Colett family of Invercargill. Interviewer(s) - Avis McDonald Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2604.

Date: [ca 1940s], 1941-1942, 1967

By: Peters family; Thomas, Charles L, active 1940s

Reference: PAColl-10285

Description: Photographic prints relating to the Peters family taken in the 1940s and 1967. Photographers unidentified unless stated. Images comprise: - Three group portraits of members of the Royal New Zealand Airforce during World War II, including Ronald Vincent Peters. Two of the recruit training school, flight 5 group (Corp Mansthorpe), at Harewood Airport, Christchurch, 19 February 1941 and one of "fitter 2A Course" at Rongotai, Wellington, taken in 1942. - Group portrait taken at a World War II ball held in Wellington, circa 1942-1944. Sisters Patricia and Valerie Leddy are identified. (Valerie married Ronald Peters). - Ten tourist photographs of Napier city after the 1931 earthquake, taken by Chas L Thomas, possibly in the 1940s. Each print is described on the back. - Wedding portrait of Vanessa Peters and Norman Greig taken in 1967 by (Jovell Smith?) of Hastings. Names of all persons in the party written on the back of the prints. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera (Enclosure for tourist prints). Provenance: Donated by Sandra Greig, Lower Hutt, 2014. Donor is the daughter of Ronald Vincent Peters.

Date: 19 Apr 1991

From: Maori Women's Welfare League: Interviews

By: Waenga, Te Rina Te-mai-awhitia, 1929-1996; Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0602-07

Description: Te Rina Waenga nee Pene born 1930 at Ratana Pa. Father Henare Pene, Ngati Kuri iwi, Pohotiare hapu, Kurahaupo and Tinana waka; mother Pipi Huntley, Ngati Moe, Ngai Tahu. Mentions being the eldest of nine children and attending school at Waikawa Pa, near Picton. Describes early life and recalls working with harakeke as part of a fundraising project. Talks about enjoyment of dancing, mother making new ballgowns, going to balls and parties, singing and going to the pictures. Talks about leaving school and working as a cook in various places - mentions Anikiwa Boys Home and Whakarewa Boys Home. Talks about meeting Te Kiato Riwai in Motueka, working together caring for runaways from 1952 until 1956. Mentions moving to Mangakino with husband Harman Waenga. Discusses their two children and many whangai children. Describes joining the Waikawa branch of the Maori Women's Welfare League in 1951, encouraged by Runa Keepa. Talks about the work of the branch, own role as branch president and comments on the positive work of the Maori Women's Welfare League. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 55 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 1991

Date: 1900 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-LOCAL-Hutt-1900/1969

Description: Includes: ca 1905: To the electors of the Borough of Lower Hutt. [Election campaign pamphlet for W E Hughes. ca 1905] 1944: Calling all mothers! Do you want safe milk?; do you want safe playgrounds for your children? Vote Labour for Lower Hutt City Council. Local elections May 27th 1944. Percy Dowse for Mayor. [Flyer] 1956: City of Lower Hutt New Zealand. Coat of arms granted and assigned to the city under the seal of Sir George Rothe Bellew, Garter King of Arms, and Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, on 25th November 1955 [1956] 1957: City of Lower Hutt. Civic Ball, April 5th 1957 to celebrate the official opening of the new Town Hall by His Excellency the Governor-General, Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Norrie. Souvenir programme 1959: Labour's choice!!! Mr R D Christie for Hutt County Power Board [Nov 1959] Pink flyer Labour's choice!!! Mr R L Bailey for Hutt County Hospital Board [1959?] Red flyer 1960: Guide to Lower Hutt, the valley with a future. [Booklet. 1960] Friendly Hutt Park Motor Camp. [Pamphlet. 1960] 1968: Vote for Don Lee, Councillor, Lower Hutt, October 12, 1968 [Small card] Petone Lions Club. A summer guide from the Petone Lions 1968-69 [Booklet] Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklets and on fliers and cards, sizes varying below 240 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Alan Smith in 1984.

Date: 25 Apr 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Cowan, Myra Edith, 1921-2015

Reference: OHInt-0419/05

Description: Myra Cowan was born in Christchurch in 1921. Describes schooling at St Margaret's College, becoming a dental assistant and meeting Bernie Cowan from Okuru in Christchurch. Talks about visiting Okuru before they married, moving down there, the old family home, being `tin kettled' by the neighbours and being homesick. Mentions sandflies and no electricity. Discusses the coal range, getting a diesel generator and some conveniences. Describes being thought of as a snob and concessions she made to this. Mentions enjoying the company of new arrivals such as the Ministry of Works people. Discusses getting some supplies from the Jacksons Bay shop, growing vegetables and some food being flown in. Describes the dance in the old hall that followed the arrival of alcohol supplies by boat. Mentions local musicians and making the supper. Discusses the whitebaiters ball which went on until daylight. Describes having her children in Greymouth or Christchurch and leaving for hospital a month before the birth. Talks about the death of one of her children from cancer. Discusses learning to drive the truck and getting a car when the road went in. Talks about the family whitebaiting and fishing. Mentions the impact of the opening of Carter's Mill near Haast. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2899.

Date: 1957 - 1959

From: [Pamphlets, programmes, flyers relating to wood-chopping and sports meetings, collected by Eric Warner. 1915-2009]

By: F Darvill Ltd; Raetihi Print; Watson's Printing House; Weeks Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-SPORT-Warner-1957/1959

Description: Includes: 1957: Karioi Sports, 12th annual meeting to be held on Karioi Park (half mile from the main highway), Saturday 16th February 1957. 100 [pounds] in prize money. Programme [hack events, athletics, jumping events, chopping, children's events]. Dance in Karioi Hall at 8 pm. Raetihi Print Owhango Sports Club, affiliated with Rangitikei Centre N.Z. A.C. & A.U. 37th annual sports meeting. 450 [pounds] in cash and trophies, to be held on the Recreation ground "Nature's Beauty Spot", on 20th April, Easter Saturday 1957. [Programme of chopping events, cycling events, horse events, athletics, national dancing]. Social and dance in the Town Hall same evening. F Darvill Ltd [printer] Rangataua Axemen's and Athletic Association. Forty-seventh annual grand carnival; athletic events, chopping, dancing, to be held on Rangataua Domain, Easter Monday 22nd April 1957. Programme. Grand dance in evening - Town Hall. Raetihi Print St Patrick's Day Sports Club. Grand Athletics, cycling and chopping carnival to be held at the Domain, Glen Eden on Sat. March 16, 1957. [Programme of athletics, chopping, cycling]. Watson's Printing House Ltd (2 copies) 1958: Karioi Sports. 13th annual meeting to be held on Karioi Park (half mile from the main highway), Saturday 15th February 1958. Programme [hack events, athletics, jumping events, chopping, children's events]. Dance in Karioi. Raetihi Print National Park Sports Assn. Saturday 25th January. Programme [chopping events, miscellaneous events. Social and dance, Football Hall, presentation of trophies. F Darvill Ltd, Taumarunui [printer] Upper Aramoho and Papaiti Sports Association. 16th annual meeting. Combined horse sports and axemen's carnival to be held at Papaiti on grounds kindly loaned by Mr T Norris. 14 February 1959. Programme [horse events and chopping events]. Weeks Print Quantity: 7 colour art print(s) and one duplicate. Physical Description: Relief prints on posters, sizes varying

Date: 1892 - 1896 - 1903

By: Smith, Lilian M, active 1900

Reference: Eph-A-INVITATIONS-Smith

Description: Includes the following invitations: Arrival at Auckland of "Jane Gifford" and "Duchess of Argyle" October 1842. Jubilee celebration, Monday 10 October 1892 in the Choral Hall. Chair to be taken by J Logan Campbell. Complimentary invitation to Mrs West c/- Mr Mitchelson, Remuera. Silver wedding of Mr and Mrs E Mitchelson, on Saturday 12th September 1896. Waitaramoa, Remuera. The Mayor of Auckland and Mrs Mitchelson request the honour of [Mrs West and the Misses Smith] at a garden party, Saturday 12th December [1903]. Waitaramoana Remuera. Auckland Citizen's Ball to His Excellency the Governor the Right Honorable The Earl of Ranfurly and the Countess of Ranfurly. Tuesday 16th June 1903. Drill Hall, Wellesley Street. Quantity: 4 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress some gilded, on tickets, sizes varying up to 135 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, April 2005. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - - Material of similar provenance is at PA1-o-1253..

Date: 1934

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly on voyages to and around New Zealand. 1934]

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1934-01

Description: Menu has a design of Mitre Peak and a seagull in flight. Inside is a programme of music, and the menu for the dinner and ball. The Commander was A H Davey, and a previous owner has stuck a photograph of the captain into the booklet, beneath the music programme. Inside front cover has a mounted photograph showing "The Napier Party" (Bill Painter, Grace Harris, Jack Harris, Louise Swailes, Ernie Swailes, Ada Painter), and there are two pages of autographs inside the back cover. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pages of booklet, 247 x 159 mm, tied with yellow cord. Provenance: Donated by Mr C Stan Butcher, Lower Hutt, in 2004.

Date: 1933-1974

From: Anderson, Bruce, 1935- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-4769

Description: Photographs of relatives of Bruce Anderson. Also includes views of the Hotel Midland, Coleman Place, Palmerston North; the Hotel Imperial, New Plymouth; and Scots Ball, Wellington, 1971, 1972 and 1974. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1920-1954

By: Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: PA-Group-00598

Description: Photographs of groups of Savage Club members taken on visits, outings, dinners and dances Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0557 : Wellington Savage Club : Records.

Date: 1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-216

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, Mar-Jul 1948. Includes book-binding; Auckland Sunday School Union mobile van (F E Slattery & W E Archer); shepherds and dogs from Lake Pukaki Station; Mount Cook Manual Training Centre, Wellington (Miss Colleen Dreyer, teacher and her pupils); girls of the Hastings Rangers Company who built a meeting-house of rammed earth with their leader Miss Pauline Tyers; Empire Day ball attended by girls from Auckland and Epsom Grammar schools, Diocesan and St Cuthbert's Collge shown dancing the minuet. Official opening of two bottle stores in Masterton by members of the Licensing Trust (includes J C D Mackley, C C Crawford and F Pickering); children in the audience of a Wellington movie theatre and looking at a poster advertising `Swiss Family Robinson'; Rora Street, Te Kuiti; D H S Riddiford making presentation to Mrs Paki (said to be 108) at Castlepoint Centenary celebrations; party of 22 typists from United Kingdom who were employed on two year contract to work in Government offices in Wellington (all named); M Anthony, skipper of New Zealand yacht Rangi with crew members F Lush and T Hammond; New Zealand flier Captain A A Mansfield, Rt Hon W J Jordan and others. Colleen Saunders wih puppies; New Zealand rugby players in London (Ted Ellisson (Dunedin), Ian McKenzie (Auckland), Arch Beadle (Dunedin), Barry Martin (Petone), Noy Reid (Auckland), Jim Hay (Wellington); Lincoln College float at Christchurch with `Millie the million dollar cow'; Handley Page Hastings, Britain's biggest transport plane at Wigram; children at Pointways, a pony club at Pakuranga; George Rush, Jack Hull, Ray Raynor and Tom Chamberlain at Timaru displaying the large number of salmon they caught; The Pinnacles near mouth of Putangirua Stream, Palliser Bay; rugby player Bob Scott; bodies of women who lost their lives in a blizzard in Copland Pass being brought to the Hermitage by guides, Apr 1848; Mrs M E Rogers of Christchurch with large salmon caught by her husband in Waimakariri River; Salvation Army Centennial Conference held in Dunedin (officers all named). Processes related to export of whiskey at a British distillery; Waitaki Boys' High School team at Otago and Southland secondary school athletic championships held in Dunedin; corvettes Arabis and Arbutus leaving Auckland for Britain; small child milking a cow; Women's Section of Christchurch RSA; Stratford Pipe Band at Inglewood United Rugby Football Club Jubilee celebrations; people under hypnosis; New Plymouth Easter Pilots' Camp; Private Muriel Cousins, Whakatane making memorial medal at Trentham Military Camp; tug Tapuhi towing retiring tug Natone to Shelly Bay; launch Ede launched at Kaikoura; first guests at `Scotlands', the Women's Division of Federated Farmers rest-home at Onehunga, Auckland (Mrs W G Graham, Mrs M A Cruickshank, Mrs A E Escott and Mrs A E Bridge) Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints